Healing with Poisons: Potent Medicines in Medieval China, Yan Liu

Автор: Yan Liu
Название: Healing with Poisons: Potent Medicines in Medieval China
ISBN: 0295748990 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780295748993
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Open access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295749013

At first glance, medicine and poison might seem to be opposites. But in China’s formative era of pharmacy (200–800 CE), poisons were strategically deployed as healing agents to cure everything from chills to pains to epidemics. Healing with Poisons explores the ways physicians, religious devotees, court officials, and laypeople used powerful substances to both treat intractable illnesses and enhance life. It illustrates how the Chinese concept of du—a word carrying a core meaning of “potency”—led practitioners to devise a variety of techniques to transform dangerous poisons into efficacious medicines.

Recounting scandals and controversies involving poisons from the Era of Division to the early Tang period, Yan Liu considers how the concept of du was central to the ways people of medieval China perceived both their bodies and the body politic. Liu also examines a wide range of du-possessing minerals, plants, and animal products in classical Chinese pharmacy, including the highly poisonous herb aconite and the popular arsenic drug Five-Stone Powder. By recovering alternative modes of understanding wellness and the body’s interaction with potent medicines, this study cautions against arbitrary classifications and exemplifies the importance of paying attention to the technical, political, and cultural conditions in which substances become truly meaningful.

Healing with Poisons is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem) and the generous support of the University at Buffalo Libraries.

Автор: Yan Liu
Название: Woven Arch Bridge: Histories of Constructional Thoughts
ISBN: 0367618230 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367618230
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Focusing on the woven arch bridge, the book traces histories of the bridge in different cultures, investigates Chinese cases and gives insights into its typology and evolution and differences between East Asian and European bridges. The author argues that the bridge`s existence in different cultures is evidence of a kind of "universal uniqueness".

Автор: Tor Mesoy, Mesoy Yan Liu, Liu Qian Lucy, Lucy
Название: Musings on leadership: life lessons to h
ISBN: 988796980X ISBN-13(EAN): 9789887969808
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Автор: Yufen Zhao; Yan Liu
Название: Phosphorus Chemistry
ISBN: 3110562375 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110562378
Издательство: Walter de Gruyter
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Описание: The book is the first thorough study of the role of phosphorus chemistry in the origin of life. This book starts with depiction of the phosphorus role in life creation and evolution. Then it outlines in vital processes how different phosphorus-containing compounds participate as biomarker in life evolution. Written by renowned scientists, it is suitable for researchers and students in organic phosphorus chemistry, biochemistry and etc.

Автор: Yan Wu, Qi Wang, Nian Cai Liu
Название: World-Class Universities: Towards a Global Common Good and Seeking National and Institutional Contributions
ISBN: 9004389628 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004389625
Издательство: Brill
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Описание: In the era marked by globalization and its profound impacts on individuals, societies, states and markets, world-class universities need to position themselves in the forefront of seeking conceptual and practical solutions to daunting challenges by paying greater attention to their roles in serving local society and contributing to global common goods. Based on the findings of the Seventh International Conference on World-Class Universities, World-Class Universities: Towards a Global Common Good and Seeking National and Institutional Contributions provides updated insights and debates on how world-class universities will contribute to the global common good and balance their global, national and local roles in doing so.

Автор: Yan Wu, Qi Wang, Nian Cai Liu
Название: World-Class Universities: Towards a Global Common Good and Seeking National and Institutional Contributions
ISBN: 900438961X ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004389618
Издательство: Brill
Цена: 59770.00 T
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Описание: In the era marked by globalization and its profound impacts on individuals, societies, states and markets, world-class universities need to position themselves in the forefront of seeking conceptual and practical solutions to daunting challenges by paying greater attention to their roles in serving local society and contributing to global common goods. Based on the findings of the Seventh International Conference on World-Class Universities, World-Class Universities: Towards a Global Common Good and Seeking National and Institutional Contributions provides updated insights and debates on how world-class universities will contribute to the global common good and balance their global, national and local roles in doing so.

Автор: Liu, Hin-yan
Название: Law`s impunity
ISBN: 1509918396 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781509918393
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: This book offers an alternative to conventional thinking about the law, providing an innovative approach to assess and refine the rigor of legal processes in the on-going quest to end impunity.

Автор: Azizi Hoda Xue Xiao Ou Liu Yan Feng
Название: Herbal medicine and acupuncture for menopausal symptoms
ISBN: 3639515110 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783639515114
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Автор: Liu Yan Quan
Название: Digital Libraries in Theory and Practices
ISBN: 153017077X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781530170777
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Автор: Hin-Yan Liu
Название: Law`s Impunity: Responsibility and the Modern Private Military Company
ISBN: 1849465169 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781849465168
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: This book offers an alternative to conventional thinking about the law, providing an innovative approach to assess and refine the rigor of legal processes in the on-going quest to end impunity.